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New Way to listen to Radio
I always have been a huge fan of Screamer Radio and still cannot recommend it enough! There are a couple of other ways as well if you prefer that. One is the new open source application called Songbird which is my choice for listening to Music. Songbird is from the same guys who wrote Firefox and the quality is pretty good. I particularly like the Lyrics...
Posted: Jan 04 2009, 06:51 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Happy New Year 2009
Hope the year is good to all of you!
Posted: Jan 01 2009, 06:20 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Live Writer 2009 RC Released
Live Writer’s new 2009 Release Candidate is available for download . I continue to be impressed by this editor and I cannot recommend it enough.
Posted: Dec 28 2008, 06:12 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Amazon Cloud Services support Oracle
Interesting to see how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded; in addition to SimpleDB now they support Oracle and mySQL – this certainly ups the ante and will make it more enticing for Enterprises to hop onto this. I have been using S3 for a some time now where my WHS is backing up and have been quite pleased. It will be interesting to see how Zurich responds...
Posted: Sep 24 2008, 07:16 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Tried and failed to upgrade to CS 2008
As some of you noticed my blog either looked different for at some point recently or for a while it was not even available and it was all a terrible mess. As you might know I am running this on Community Server 2007 (CS 2007); CS 2008 was released some time back I thought maybe it is about time that I upgrade to that. Now you would think that it should be...
Test Post – please ignore
Testing, testing, can anyone see this?
Posted: Aug 28 2008, 08:50 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Big Brother watching via Bluetooth?
Guardian has an interesting story on how Bluetooth is being used to track people's movement in Bath. The concern is that the 10 or so scanners not only pick up your mobile's ID (which you have set) but can also pick up your Identity via your name. email and phone numbers. So think carefully before switching on your Bluetooth on the mobile!
Posted: Jul 22 2008, 12:21 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Switching Off Snap "Preview"
I think Snap Previews were a good idea earlier but now for me it has just started getting irritating and for my blog I have switched it off.
Posted: May 31 2008, 08:20 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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The Printer Spy - tiny tracking dots on your printout!
This is scary! It seems like your printer is spying on you using tiny tracking dots which are automatically printed whenever you take a print out. Of course these dots are unique and can be tracked to your individual printer and are not visible to the naked eye (otherwise you won't have noticed them, innit?) The US govt. has convinced most of the printer...
Posted: Mar 07 2008, 08:52 PM by Amit Bahree
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First Windows 7 Screenshots
Do these seem to be the first Window 7 Screenshots or is it Photoshop magic?
Posted: Jan 25 2008, 12:19 AM by Amit Bahree
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VMware Fusion - the perfect Mac and Windows marriage?
VMware Fusion is not new and I have been meaning to blog about it for a while but just not got around to it until now. If you only have used VPC (Virtual PC) or it's bigger cousin (Virtual Server) and never used one of the VMware products, wake up and smell the coffee and get ready to get blown away. VMware Workstation for example is so much better than...
Posted: Jan 20 2008, 12:12 PM by Amit Bahree
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Hotels Glasses
I came across this undercover report on Hotel Glasses from a colleague or mine and it sure is very disturbing! A must watch if you stay in hotels.
Posted: Jan 17 2008, 10:26 PM by Amit Bahree
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Testing with Ink
Posted: Jan 02 2008, 07:04 PM by Amit Bahree
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Network Speed @ Oxford
Posted: Nov 20 2007, 06:56 PM by Amit Bahree
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Feist 1234
Megha send me this one; I had never heard of these guys but I do recognize the music from the new iPod Nano advertisement.
Posted: Sep 30 2007, 10:00 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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CS 2007 SP3 (Beta)
Seems like many others are following the MS route in releasing Betas - which might not be the best thing in the world. Telligent has now released the CS 2007 Service Pack 3 (Pre-Release) with a long list of fixes and "new features".
Posted: Aug 29 2007, 10:18 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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iPhone on XP?
LOL! iPhone advertisements run XP .
Posted: Aug 12 2007, 03:21 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Call for WLW plugins
Despite my skepticism about not much happening on the WLW front, I do like it and use it for blogging and want to find out which plugins would you recommend. For example, which one to use for code? There is Insert Code for WLW , Paste from VS , Insert Formatted Clipboard , etc.
Posted: Aug 11 2007, 12:41 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Microsoft vs IBM
Both Microsoft and IBM are dueling it out in the cyberspace over SOA - reminds me of the hay days just before the .com boom started back in the bay area.
Posted: Aug 11 2007, 11:07 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Post DDOS attack - blog back on
If you are an avid reader of this blog (who am I kidding) , you would have noticed that for the last couple of days it has been impossible to hit this site. The main reason for that being for the last 2-3 days discountAsp.net (where I host this site) have been under a massive DDOS attack . They setup another site outside of their data centers just to provide...
Posted: Jun 23 2007, 10:58 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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CS 2007 SP2
Hot on the heels of SP1 , Telligent has released CS 2007 SP2 . You can read up on what has been fixed and you can download it from here . I have upgraded the blog to SP2 and everything seems to be running fine, but if something is amiss then let me know .
Posted: Jun 19 2007, 12:09 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Aero Wallpaper Pack
A few people have released an interesting set of wallpapers which although they say is for Aero, you can use it with any OS. You can see a screenshot here and download it from here (~16 mb).
Posted: Jun 07 2007, 11:01 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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Upgraded to CS 2007 SP1
SP1 for CS 2007 has been available for about 3 weeks, and I finally got around to upgrading to that. Everything seems to be working fine, but if you find something amiss please drop me a note and let me know.
Posted: Jun 01 2007, 03:10 PM by Amit Bahree | with 1 comment(s)
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Google Sitemap Index
I have seen this question being asked a number of times in the forums and thought I'd post about it. What is a Google Sitemap, who better to answer but Google: A Sitemap provides an additional view into your site (just as your home page and HTML site map do). This program does not replace our normal methods of crawling the web. Google still searches...
Posted: May 24 2007, 08:10 AM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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CS v.next
Now that CS 2007 has shipped, CS (a.k.a Community Server - the thing that this blog runs on), has announced their plans for the rest of this year and will have two releases in July and October codenamed Maui and Hawaii respectively. Seem to be interesting changes, enhancements, refactoring, etc that is going on. I have not had the time to dig too much under...
Posted: May 03 2007, 12:54 PM by Amit Bahree | with no comments
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